Recently we were saddened when our TIMO Team working among the Didinga in Sudan, was forced to end early. The Sudan team, working among people with little exposure to the rest of the world, were blamed for the lack of rain and suffered a dramatic threat to their lives. They pulled out after only 8 months (usually the TIMO program runs for two or more years). This early ending was sad for us and the team and many others within AIM and even elsewhere who had worked so hard to put this team in place. Yet in this situation we have seen evidence of God’s faithfulness. To the Sudanese Didinga, among whom the team had the privilege of sowing many seeds of the Good News, a Didinga evangelist named Hector went to continue the work. 
Church meetings were continued and interest went from around 25 to 200 almost immediately and now fluctuates weekly. A number have committed themselves to Jesus. But there’s also been more persecution and spiritual warfare. Recently Hector’s brother-in-law was accused of stopping the rain and was killed. A recent convert was stabbed and injured. It is a wild area without infrastructure or law, but the Lord is meeting people there. Pray that the Lord will continue to build His church among the Didinga people in the mountains of Southern Sudan.
